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Consolidate the gains that he made. >> martha: which maybe would have been the smarter military move in the beginning, which is what he said he was going to do to recognize the independence of that area. before i let you go, this is the other fear. when you're corners and humiliating this leader who has the largest nuclear weapons cache in the world and chemical and biological weapons as well, what is the fear of that in kyiv? >> and a history of using them when his back was against the wall. so there's no declaration of victory. kirby was right to say that. you can't predict what you can't pr...

Kyiv. it's an astonishing failure by vladimir putin. you know he'sed infuriated by it, embarrassed by it. he announced a new phase a couple days ago. now they're saying in order to bring about peace negotiations, they're repositioning troops and pulling away from kyiv. it's a recognition that it didn't work. donbas was important to them. the south and the land bridge is important. maybe they will focus there. they may try to go into a quiet phase. they were shocked trying to go to the capitol with the 40-mile convoy. they may count on us tuning our focus somewhere else. as the world turns its ...

Few hours made this proclamation. we have seen a small number move away from kyiv. that's about the most i can give you. i don't have any information on their resupply efforts for troops that are still arrayed against kyiv. i would remind that the russians still have a significant majority of their assembled combat power to include logistics and sustainment capability inside ukraine. >> trying to understand something. if you're talking about small number, you think just what you're seeing now or do you think there's going to be more numbers because you're saying they might be pulling out these...

Lead-up to russia's invasion demonstrated that the kremlin's real intent was to overthrow the democratically elected government and to occupy or annex large portions of ukraine. the posture of russian forces around kyiv along much of the black and the azov sea coast and central and northeast ukraine indicates the geographic scale of this ambition. russia's intent wanted to create people's republics as displayed recently in the khersan pro tense. kyiv and the capitol city was a key objective for the russians. so we ought not be fooling and nobody should be fooling ourselves by the kremlin's rec...

Seeing small numbers of russian troops moving, you say they're repositioning. would that be by small, do you mean less than a battalion tactical group? >> this is very early on. we don't have a number estimate. it's certainly not a significant chunk of the multiple battalion tactical groups that russia has arrayed against kyiv. so we can confirm that we've seen a small number start to reposition. i'd be reticent to put a unit on it. it's not nearly where near the majority of the units in kiev. >> are they moving like north to belarus or repositioning for what you described as an offensive some...